Intellij/Pycharm can't debug Python modules

Question

I use PyCharm/IntelliJ community editions from a wile to write and debug Python scripts, but now I\'m trying to debug a Python modu

Answer 1

I found it easiest to create a bootstrap file (debuglaunch.py) with the following contents.

from {package} import {file with __main__}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    {file with __main__}.main()

For example, to launch locustio in the pycharm debugger, I created debuglaunch.py like this:

from locust import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main.main()

And configured pycharm as follows.

NOTE: I found I was not able to break into the debugger unless I added a breakpoint on main.main() . That may be specific to locustio, however.